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Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
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The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.
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You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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